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<p>[QUOTE="Blaubart, post: 1430454, member: 37498"]If your safe is rated to not exceed 350 in a typical house fire, then I think the best test would be a controlled test in an oven set at 350. No need to test them at 1000 or 1500 degrees as has been suggested, we know what will happen in those temperatures.</p><p><br /></p><p>The doll house idea, while it might be fun, probably wouldn't produce any meaningful results. What you need is a nice prolonged exposure to 350. Not a flash fire that might or might not reach 350, and certainly wouldn't be that hot for very long.</p><p><br /></p><p>If I was doing the test, I might even set them on top of some gypsum board to see what the heat, combined with the steam, would do to the coins and their holders.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Blaubart, post: 1430454, member: 37498"]If your safe is rated to not exceed 350 in a typical house fire, then I think the best test would be a controlled test in an oven set at 350. No need to test them at 1000 or 1500 degrees as has been suggested, we know what will happen in those temperatures. The doll house idea, while it might be fun, probably wouldn't produce any meaningful results. What you need is a nice prolonged exposure to 350. Not a flash fire that might or might not reach 350, and certainly wouldn't be that hot for very long. If I was doing the test, I might even set them on top of some gypsum board to see what the heat, combined with the steam, would do to the coins and their holders.[/QUOTE]
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